Guillermo Cortes Robles has a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba and a Ph.D. in Industrial Systems from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. Today, he is a professor of engineering science at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico-Instituto Tecnologico de Orizaba in the postgraduate school, specifically in the management engineering master and the engineering Sciences Ph.D. program. His research interests are applying the TRIZ theory combined with other approaches (e.g., knowledge management, decision support systems, genetic algorithms, creativity techniques, among other technologies) to accelerate the innovation process. He is the President of the Mexican TRIZ association (AMETRIZ). Was the technical leader of more than 15 projects and had published several articles in different journals. Also was the director of 25 master thesis and five doctoral dissertations. Eduardo Roldán-Reyes has amaster in the science of engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba and a Ph.D. in Industrial Systems from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. Today, he is a full-researcher at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico-Instituto Tecnologico de Orizaba in the postgraduate school, specifically in the engineering management master and the engineering Sciences Ph.D. program. His research interests are the development of information systems based on knowledge management, decision support systems, machine learning, data mining, and text mining, to assist the operation and management activities in organizations. He belongs to the National Systems of Researcher of the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico.
Fernando Aguirre-y-Hernández has a management master's degree and a Ph.D. in management and economic sciences. In addition, he has experience as a CEO in different enterprises and commercial organizations, which were the basis fordeveloping the SIGMIL model, applicable in the design of strategic plans. Furthermore, he collaborates with several international universities and has published three books and several articles. He is a professor at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico-Instituto Tecnologico de Orizaba in the management engineering master program.